Broadway Christmas light replacement hindered

7:04 AM,
Oct. 11, 2013

People wait in line at Hubbard Street and Broadway in Green Bay for a horse-drawn wagon ride under the brightly lit trees lining the Broadway business district in November 2010. New lights are supposed to go up in the district this year, but the Green Bay Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department currently doesn't have the resources to do the job.

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White lights in trees along Broadway are a regular feature in nationally televised Green Bay Packers nighttime football games, and the annual lighting ceremony is a big event for district businesses.

The city required the district to replace its existing lights this year, but the Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department said it could not put them up because of the resources required to deal with the emerald ash borer in other parts of the city, Christopher Naumann, executive director of On Broadway Inc., told ...